Top 115 Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

About Stanley Hauerwas

These are some quotes by American author Stanley Hauerwas Theologian, who was born on July 24, 1940.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

Stanley Hauerwas

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Stanley Hauerwas

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Stanley Hauerwas

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.

Stanley Hauerwas

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

Stanley Hauerwas

One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.

Stanley Hauerwas

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.

American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able to produce an interesting atheist in America.

Stanley Hauerwas

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

Stanley Hauerwas

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable belief in the common sense of the individual.

Stanley Hauerwas

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